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How gender, race, age and voter ID laws affect whether a voter actually casts a ballot

Who shows up to cast a ballot and who is allowed to mark a ballot and have it counted will determine which candidates take office and what issues they focus on.

The Conversation

Fayette County clerk expects state constitutional amendments to produce greater voter turnout

It’s the final stretch of campaigning across the Commonwealth before the November eighth general election. Electioneering too close to voting locations can be a concern. Kentucky’s current law calls for a 100-foot buffer area at voting precincts.

WEKU

Arizona to vote on introducing more voter ID requirements

Opponents fear the measure might result in increased ballot counting time and identity fraud

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Ramesh Ponnuru: Democrats are focusing on the wrong issues

A political party has a problem when voters think it has the wrong answers to their most important questions. It has a bigger problem when voters think it isn’t even focusing on those questions. Democrats have put themselves in that position, and it may cost them dearly in next month’s…

Tribune News Service

‘Best of a bad bunch’: voters share their views on Rishi Sunak

Five voters, who support a range of political parties, on what they think of the new Tory leader and the issues he must prioritise

The Guardian - UK

Conservative members quit after Rishi Sunak is made leader

One voter of more than 40 years said the party had been 'destroyed from within'

Wales Online

‘One seat could make the difference’: Arab parties rally for votes in Israeli election

Disillusioned Arab voters key to stopping Benjamin Netanyahu’s return at head of far-right coalition

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Conspiracy pushers target races for local election posts

Races for the positions that oversee elections at the local level are being targeted by those peddling election conspiracies and falsely claiming that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election

The Independent UK

2 right-wing activists plead guilty in hoax 2020 election robocall scheme

Prosecutors in Ohio said false pre-recorded messages warned thousands of minority voters against voting by mail.

Axios

Arizona sheriff steps up security around ballot drop boxes

The sheriff in metropolitan Phoenix says he’s stepped up security around ballot drop boxes after a series of incidents involving people keeping watch on the boxes and taking video of voters after they were apparently inspired by lies about the 2020 election

The Independent UK

Awaiting voters’ decision on abortion, when medicine and politics collide

LANSING, Mich. — The fight over abortion is steaming toward a political resolution across Michigan as activists, policymakers, politicians, providers and would-be-patients eye the Nov. 8 election.

Tribune News Service

Early votes in Georgia, nation could signal high '22 turnout

Strong early voting could point to high turnout in Georgia and nationwide in the 2022 midterms

The Independent UK

Over 100 early voting sites now open in Chicago, Cook County

All early voting locations in Chicago will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays. All locations in Chicago and the suburbs allow voters to drop off mail-in ballots, as well.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tory party members react to Sunak as PM as some cancel memberships

Tory voters have described feeling as though their party ‘has been destroyed from within’.

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Mail voting tops 1.2 million in Florida with more than two weeks to midterm elections

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — More than 1.2 million Florida voters have already cast their midterm election ballots, before the candidates for governor face off in their only debate. It reflects a continuing desire by many to vote from the comfort of their homes, rather than lining up at an early…

Al Jazeera

Q&A: Before US midterms, advocate warns of voting barriers

Former Arkansas election official Joshua Ang Price tells Al Jazeera voting access curbs are ‘weakening democracy’ in US.

Miami Herald

DeSantis is favored by most Hispanic voters — even some Florida Democrats, new poll shows

MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis has an advantage among Hispanic voters over his Democratic opponent Charlie Crist, according to a new poll for Telemundo/ LX News. A majority also said they supported the Republican governor’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hurricane Ian response, housing, insurance issues — and his…

The Independent UK

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The Texas Tribune

Early voting has started in Texas. Here are your rights at the polls.

Early voting runs from Monday, Oct. 24, to Friday, Nov. 4. The last day to apply to vote by mail is Friday, Oct. 28. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8.

The Conversation

How Indonesia's female candidates have used social media to boost Islamic image and win elections

In recent years, voters in the world’s third-largest democracy, Indonesia, have preferred to support candidates with solid religious personas and a lifestyle and appearances adhering to Islamic values. This preference is in line with the increasing trend towards Islamic piety in the Muslim majority country.

Axios

Election officials say armed "vigilantes" watching over ballot drop box in Mesa, Arizona

Two voters have filed complaints of voter intimidation to the Arizona state secretary in the past few days.

Tribune News Service

Biden tells voters he’s in good health ahead of 2024

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden challenged voters to pick another Democrat if they have concerns about his age, while declaring himself healthy enough for a second term.

Los Angeles Times

Mail voting was having a moment. Then came Trump's false fraud claims

WASHINGTON — For a brief time in 2020, it seemed as though the vote-by-mail movement was having a bipartisan moment.

The National (Scotland)

Independence 'feels like Brexit to Scots voters', claims BBC journalist

SCOTTISH independence “feels like” Brexit to voters, according to a BBC journalist who criticised the lack of detail in the government’s…

Salon

Armed men "watch" ballot drop box in AZ

"This is obviously totally incompatible with liberal democracy and an open society," said one commentator

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